Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...

Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI ... to me to leave a doorway with stuff to work on and to savor and to argue about.” All of Leigh’s films are written and directed by him. He leaves the producing ...

The title of Mike Leigh ... sisters in Leigh’s 1993 play “It’s a Great Big Shame” and close friends in his Palme d’Or-winning feature “Secrets & Lies” (1996). Their work on this ...

Ruminate on the title of the latest film from acclaimed British writer-director Mike ... work to elucidating the complexities of the human condition, especially because the movie also finds Leigh ...

After two period pictures, the venerable English director Mike Leigh returns to contemporary London with his ... corner rowhouse with her husband Curtley and son Moses. Curtley works as a general home ...

Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has honed a unique film-making method over 50 years. Leigh never gives his actors a script ...

Joshua Encinias: Have you ever had to replace an actor who can't work with your method of improvisation? Mike Leigh: A couple of times I've had to say goodbye to an actor, but for other reasons ...

The title of Mike ... played sisters in Leigh's 1993 play "It's a Great Big Shame" and close friends in his Palme d'Or-winning feature "Secrets & Lies" (1996). Their work on this film has been ...